[XML-SIG] replacing parts of xml using xpath

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 06:01, Colin Gillespie wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Problem:
> Example xml file:
> <aaa>
> 	<bbb />
> 	<bbb />
> <aaa>
> 
> I want to replace a part of the xml file, identified by an xpath
> construct with something else. For example, 
> replace //bbb[2] with <ccc />
> To get 
> <aaa>
> 	<bbb />
> 	<ccc />
> <aaa>
>  
> Is this possible with pyxml & xpath? If not, can anyone suggest what
> would be the best way to tackling this problem.

Sure you can do this with pyxml and xpath.  I personally would probably
use XUpdate if I had many such types of replacements to do.


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